Schumer vows to vote on Biden Supreme Court pick with 'all deliberate speed'
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that Democrats will take up a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Stepehen Breyer, who is expected to retire at the end of the current term, with "all deliberate speed."
“President Biden’s nominee will receive a prompt hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee and will be considered and confirmed by the full United States Senate with all deliberate speed," Schumer said in a statement.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Il.), Schumer's No. 2 and the Judiciary Committee chairman, added that he looked "forward to moving the President’s nominee expeditiously through the Committee.”
NBC News first reported on Wednesday that Breyer, 83, will retire at the end of the Supreme Court's current term. The court typically recesses in late June or early July.
The decision gives President Biden a chance to fill a seat on the Supreme Court ahead of the November midterm election, where Republicans are feeling increasingly bullish about their chance of flipping the House and potentially the Senate.
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